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Tag Archives: John Esposito
Dr. Esposito and the seven-percent solution
“Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.” —Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit Professor John L. Esposito runs a slick operation at Georgetown with $20 million of funding from Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. The shared agenda … Continue reading
Esposito’s predictions, right and wrong
At Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), John L. Esposito has revisited a prediction he made over five years ago, in the lead-up to the Iraq war. “Five years after a U.S. war with Iraq,” he wrote in November 2002, … Continue reading
Georgetown Yankees in Prince Alwaleed’s court
In December, Harvard and Georgetown universities announced that they’d each received $20 million from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, for programs in Islamic studies. There’s been much commentary on this, and I’ll have more to say later. For … Continue reading
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Professorial Pundits Place Iraq Bets
The war is underway, and most of the rationales for and against it are based on predictions. No one reasonably expects professors of Middle Eastern studies to predict military outcomes. But political outcomes, especially in the long term, are supposed … Continue reading
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Ask Professor Esposito
The fame of Professor John Esposito, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, rests upon his purported ability to sort Islamist extremists from Islamist moderates. Too often, he warns us, we wind up throwing all of the Islamists into … Continue reading
